Maybe, but the point of mesh networks is that each AP only has to see one other AP to work, and a device only has to be in the range of one AP. Because mesh APs

Maybe, but the point of mesh networks is that each AP only has to see one other AP to work, and a device only has to be in the range of one AP. Because mesh APs generally take efforts to not talk over each other, they usually end up less powerful than other routers, leading to mesh setups like this: |--a------| |---------| |--a------| |------j--| |--a---i--| where a are the mesh APs and i is the item you're trying to find. If i can only be seen by the third/bottom AP, it wouldn't be any more useful than a traditional router (because from the perspective of i, it is a traditional router). Even if it could be seen by two APs (like j, for example), you generally need three sources to accurately trilaterate things so unless you have a minimum of three APs covering every single point of your entire house (which will lead to slightly worse performance and way higher spending, probably around three times the price), this probably won't work very well. Or you could buy mesh routers that can all be seen from anywhere in your house... which would kill the point of making your network mesh anyway because then you could just use a single AP from that setup to cover your whole house.